WSJ: Carriers not as keen on Tizen as they were before

Every time we get close to a launch for a Tizen powered handset, something seems to happen to delay the project. Japan's DoCoMo was all set to make an announcement about the phone in the middle of last month. The carrier's president, Kaoru Kato, practiced his speech a month in advance, signifying the importance of Tizen for the mobile operator. But on the very day that the phone was to be unveiled, Kato canceled the announcement, stating that there was no demand in Japan for a competitor to the iOS and Android duopoly. The executive subsequently said that "Tizen continues to be extremely important...we will watch global market trends to decide on a launch."

France's Orange was expected to launch a Tizen powered phone at the same time as DoCoMo. Instead, the company backed off, stating that it feels that Tizen is not "as mature" as the operator thought it would be. Orange says it does not have a Tizen phone in its line up that is ready to be released soon.

It was originally believed that Samsung had worked hard to finish Tizen so as not to be seen as a slave to Google and its open source Android OS. By having Tizen around as a possible Android replacement, Samsung could threaten to launch its handsets powered by its own OS. Not coincidentally, that would allow Samsung to capture the sale of third party apps, content and services on Tizen, instead of letting Google take all of that revenue from Android.

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